drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- Mm,11.5
- Description
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East front of the Parthenon; narrow walled street on r, with garden on left with three figures, beyond front of Parthenon with mosque behind. 1765
Pen and grey ink and watercolour, with bodycolour, over graphite
- Production date
- 1764-1766
- Dimensions
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Height: 360 millimetres
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Width: 552 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Engraved with modifications in Stuart and Revett's 'Antiquities of Athens', Vol II, 1789, Ch 1, pl 1.
See Mm, 11.63 for notes from L. Stainton, "British Landscape Watercolours:1600-1860" (BM, exh. cat., 1985) on Chandler and Revett's expedition to Greece and Asia Minor, 1764-66, which Pars accompanied as official draughtsman.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1971 Jul-Oct, BM, Classical Sites and Monuments, no.51
1972 Sep-Nov, London, Council of Europe, 'Age of Neo-classicism', no.713
2008 Aug-Oct, Los Angeles, J Paul Gettty Museum, 'Grecian Taste...'
2021, 24 Mar-5 Sept, London, Sir John Soane's Museum, In Search of Ionia
2022, 10 Mar - May 8, London, BM Room 3
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Antiquities of Athens
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Mm,11.5
